The Mighty Mage
Chapter 259: Black Cloaked Figures

Chapter 259: Chapter 259: Black Cloaked Figures

One by one she picked up the dead soldiers.

Multitasking was a hard task but Gu Jin had experience in it. With her one hand, she sucked away the life force from the parasites, while she used her other hand to cast the primary rank spell of necromancy element.

Just like that, she built more than 10 skelly. Each of them was at the advanced rank.

What made Gu Jin regretful was that each of the awakened skelly didn’t have any powerful element.

They either possessed earth, wind, or water elements.

This made her reach the conclusion, that for some reason all of her awakened weren’t able to secure their strongest element after the transformation.

One possibility that Gu Jin could think of was that it was because of her low necromancy cultivation.

But then again...even if it was true why did none of the skeleton warriors awaken the plant element?

Gu Jin wondered whether it was because of her awakened elements.

Maybe the skeleton warrior couldn’t secure those elements that the necromancer possessed.

Gu Jin didn’t have much time to think about them and could only pass the cloak and the mask to the skeleton warrior and ask them to wear them and help the soldier fight.

Maybe it can be considered a good deed from her end, but only Gu Jin knew the truth.

She had a selfish thought process. If the soldiers died, she wouldn’t be able to handle all the parasites by herself.

The most beneficial scenario for her was to aid the military in destroying the artifact.

Her sole reason for doing so was again...because of her business.

As for others?

Gu Jin refused to admit that she couldn’t bear to see others die.

"Soldiers, don’t step back! Continue to fight until we win." Feng Boyu a military man with the tall build, sharp facial features, and tanned skin shouted.

However, the situation in front of them didn’t look optimistic at all.

In fact...it looked awful.

If the things continued as they were going, they would soon die.

This was known by all the soldiers but they were waiting.

Waiting for General Gu’s message.

The battlefield was a scene of chaos, painted with blood and dust.

Soldiers clashed fiercely with the parasites, but for every parasite they felled, more seemed to crawl out of the shadows.

The sound of clashing metal and explosive magic filled the air, but no matter how hard the soldiers fought, the tide was not turning in their favor.

Feng Boyu’s face was streaked with dirt and sweat as he fought off a parasitic beast twice his size.

His hands were steady, but his heart was heavy.

They had been fighting for hours, and the once confident glimmer in the eyes of his fellow soldiers was fading fast.

One by one, he had seen his comrades fall, consumed by the relentless horde.

The ground was littered with the bodies of the fallen, human and parasite alike, but the parasites showed no signs of slowing.

Ren Fulin swung his sword with a frustrated grunt,

He was a man with tanned skin, delicate facial features, and a bulky figure.

He sliced through the neck of a parasite that had gotten too close.

Its head rolled across the dirt, but another took its place almost instantly. "Damn it!" Fulin shouted, his voice cracking with fatigue.

"These things are never-ending! We were lied to—this isn’t a battle, it’s a massacre!"

Feng Boyu didn’t respond immediately, too focused on keeping the enemies at bay, but Fulin’s words echoed what he was feeling.

His usual calm demeanor was beginning to crack under the pressure.

No matter how hard they fought, no matter how many parasites they killed, their numbers didn’t seem to decrease at all.

"General Gu... where the hell is signal?" Feng Boyu muttered under his breath as he blasted a parasite with a fire spell, turning it into ash.

His chest heaved with exertion, but there was no time to catch his breath.

As more soldiers fell, the soldiers began to show signs of despair.

Some were too exhausted to fight back properly, others stared into the distance as if accepting their fate.

Fulin saw this and felt his own hope slipping away.

A parasite with razor-sharp mandibles hissed at him, its disgusting voice dripping with venom as it spat,

"You humans... so weak. So pathetic. Why do you even try? You will all die here."

Fulin’s anger flared at the taunt.

"Shut up!" he roared, slicing the parasite clean in half with his blade.

"Boyu," Fulin gasped, barely dodging another attack.

"At this rate, we’re all gonna die here! There’s no way out!"

Feng Boyu, who was normally the rock of their unit, couldn’t deny it.

The tide had turned against them, and no amount of bravery could hold back the wave of parasites.

He had always believed in fighting to the last breath, but now, even that seemed futile.

He saw a soldier fall beside him, a young man barely out of training. Feng Boyu’s heart twisted.

This was more than a battle; it was a slaughter.

Were they truly going to die like this?

Was this truly their end?

Suddenly, a sharp whistle rang out over the battlefield.

The soldiers, confused and battle-weary, turned their heads towards the sound.

Emerging from the smoke and debris were several figures, draped in black cloaks and wearing masks that concealed their identities.

The soldiers stared, wide-eyed, as these unknown entities moved swiftly and silently towards the heart of the battle.

Fulin’s first instinct was to assume the worst. "Oh great," he muttered bitterly, gripping his sword tighter.

"More of them. Just what we needed—reinforcements for the parasites."

The reason Ren Fulin suspected it was because of the chaotic aura around those figures.

They were for sure...not human!

Feng Boyu, barely standing, raised his sword defensively. "Everyone, stay alert!" he ordered, his voice hoarse.

"These might be reinforcements for the parasites—prepare for the worst!"

But something was wrong.

The parasites, instead of welcoming the cloaked figures, seemed just as confused as the soldiers.

They can smell that those figures were indeed of their kind but at the same time...those black cloaked figures seemed a bit different to them.

Just as the soldiers prepared to engage what they believed were enemies, the black-cloaked figures moved.

One of them raised a hand, and a wave of magic pulsed through the air.

To the soldiers’ shock, the magic wasn’t aimed at them—it was directed at the parasites.

A series of earth spikes were thrown in the direction of the parasites killing all the weak parasites at once.

Another cloaked figure stepped forward, summoning water magic with a flick of their wrist.

A torrent of water surged forward, sweeping through the parasite ranks and knocking them off their feet.

The parasites screeched in panic, completely caught off guard by the attack.

"What... what the hell is going on?" Fulin stammered, his eyes wide with disbelief.

Feng Boyu, equally shocked, watched as the cloaked figures unleashed a barrage of magic upon the parasites.

Most of them only used either of the three elements: Water, earth, and wind.

However, according to their strength, they were at least at advanced rank!

The parasites, once so confident in their victory, were being torn apart by these mysterious newcomers.

The soldiers, realizing what was happening, stared in awe and confusion.

"They’re... they’re fighting the parasites," one soldier said, his voice trembling with disbelief. "They’re not our enemies!"

Fulin’s heart leaped with hope.

"Are they with the higher command?" he asked aloud, though no one could answer. "Whoever they are... they’re on our side!"

The tide of battle began to shift rapidly.

The parasites, once overwhelming in number, were now being pushed back by the sheer power of the cloaked figures.

The soldiers, spurred on by this sudden turn of events, found their strength returning. They fought alongside the black-cloaked warriors, hope flashing in their eyes.

Gu Jin continued to suck the life force.

To ensure that her soldiers doesn’t run out of mana, Gu Jin used the mana artifact she had obtained from Pei Ke.

Gu Jin knew the mana artifact was very powerful but she didn’t know it would go so well with her necromancy element.

The major disadvantage of the skeleton warrior was, that they would require twice the time a normal mage requires to recover the mana.

But with the mana artifact which she hardly had the time to explore, her skeleton warriors were just like Super Rank mages.

They could continuously cast spells without any cooldown and any fatigue.

In simpler words, they were like killing machines for the parasites.

To ensure her victory, Gu Jin specially taught them a formation.

This increased the fighting power of her skeleton warrior.

It was not wrong to say that now...the bunch of parasites were just like ants to Skeleton Warriors

At first, the soldiers didn’t realize any problem, but soon they noticed the anomaly of how those black-cloaked figures were casting spells one after the other without any fatigue or cooldown.

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